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Last night.

Good times.

Meanwhile…

The latest Regulations ease the COVID-19 restrictions in limited but important ways. The Government continues to blur the distinction between law and public health advice in a way that is likely to mislead citizens as to the extent of their legal obligations.

In most respects, the law is less strict than what the Government presents. In relation to meetings between vaccinated people and some construction work, the law is more strict than what the Government presents. For the reasons that have been advanced repeatedly, this offends the rule of law and corrodes public trust.

April 2021 Easing of COVID-19 Restrictions: Law and Guidance (Covid19 Law And Human Rights Observatory)

Shay Healy holding a signed Rolling Stones-autographed Fender Stratocaster at the launch of a Rock and Pop Auction in Whyte’s in aid of the Irish Parkinsons Association in 2013

This morning.

RIP.

Songwriter and broadcaster Shay Healy dies aged 78 (RTÉ)

RollingNews

This afternoon.

The British Embassy, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Earlier…

Britain’s Prince Philip in Dublin in 1998

This morning.

Buckingham Palace has announced the death of Prince Philip, husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.

RIP.

Meanwhile…

Not now, lads.

This afternoon.

Leinster House, Dublin 2.

As loyalist paramilitary groups denied involvement in another night of rioting in west Belfast, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald…

…said loyalist violence has been deliberately planned to stoke up maximum tensions and called on unionist politicians to show “enlightened leadership” and to call off protests planned for this weekend.

Speaking outside to journalists Leinster House Ms McDonald said it is “unacceptable” that unionist leaders in the North have not yet called for further protests planned for this weekend to be cancelled.

“That message needs to come from all of us, but it particularly needs to be heard loud and clear from the leadership of the DUP, from all the unionist political parties and from all of the loyalist organisations,” she said.

“Now is your moment to step forward and in a very unequivocal and very clear and firm way, to say to those who have orchestrated this violence to stop and to call off all of the protests.”

Loyalist paramilitaries deny involvement in protests (RTÉ)

RollingNews

Ah.

Via Daft:

Old cottage in need of repair selling with c.7 acres

Indeed.

Seven acres tho.

Mullaghbawn, Drumkeeran, Co. Leitrim (Daft)

Meanwhile…

Ah but you’d miss the craic.

All the same.

The what mob?

After former TV3 presenter Aisling O’Loughlin (top) took to Instagram this week to discuss why she will not get a jab against the rona…

Yikes.

Blimey.

Cripes.

Good grief.

Alternatively…

FIGHT!

Former Xpose presenter says people are being blackmailed into getting the Covid jab in anti-vax rant (Sunday World)

This morning.

Moore Street, Dublin 1.

Mandate members who previously worked in Debenhams mark one year in dispute with their former employer.

Mandate trade union has been maintaining pickets outside the 11 stores in pursuit of…

… enhanced redundancy terms of four weeks’ per year of service provided for under a 2016 collective agreement with their former employer – rather than the statutory minimum of two weeks’ per year of service capped at €600 per week.

To date their campaign has secured a ring-fenced €3 million training and upskilling fund to assist the workers, but that was rejected on the basis that it failed to deliver cash payments.

The union is also calling for new legislation to boost the employment rights of workers caught up in insolvency situations.

Protests to mark one year since liquidation of Debenhams (RTÉ)

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Stop that.

Cheese-eating, super-spreading monkeys.

Gulp.

Irish MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace filmed on a trip to Iraq where they visited a brigade headquarters of Iran state-sponsored militia network Hashed al-Sha’abi, whose Iranian bases were a target of recent US bombing.

FIGHT!

Footage of Irish MEPs in Iraq used in YouTube video promoting a militia group (The Journal)